Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY is delighted to announce the following poems have been nominated for inclusion in 2024’s Best of the Net anthology: Flight Path by Laura RodleyThe Sonnet by Ed HackRailway Station, Bendery, Moldova by Tovli SimiryanBaptism by Greg WatsonMaking Up by Larina WarnockAll the best stories are true by Julia Klatt Singer —read more—
Not Humming
On the forced march
from Tientsin to Woosung,
our Marines, ordered silent—
no humming or singing
snapped the Japanese,
as the men trudged
a hundred miles to prison.
My father, not humming,
the whole of four winters,
or to my knowledge, since.
by Laura Foley, first published in Joy Street (Headmistress Press).
Editor’s Note: The simple narrative of this poem belies the overwhelming emotional impact.
—so much power in so few words—and to think people are afraid of poetry!?!?!
Also previously published in A Quiet Courage:
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